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Buy Herbs Online - Medicinal Herbs :: A - C

  Agrimony
  Aloe vera
  American Ginseng
  Arborvitae (Thuja)
  Arnica
  Ashwagandha
  Balm, Lemon
  Bayberry

  Bitter Orange
  Blackberry
  Black Cohosh
  Black Haw
  BladderWrack
  Bloodroot
  Blue Cohosh
  Blue Flag Iris

  Burdock
  Butcher's Broom
  Cajeput
  Calendula
  Chamomile
  Chaste Tree
  Chinese Angelica
  Chokecherry

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Buy Herbs Online - Medicinal Herbs :: C - M

  Chrysanthemum
  Comfrey
  Cramp Bark
  Damiana
  Dandelion
  Echinacea
  Elder
  Elecampane

  Eyebright
  Gentian
  Geranium, Spotted
  Goldenseal
  Green tea
  Hawthorn
  Horehound

  Horse chestnut
  Honeysuckle
  Indian Tobacco
  Juniper
  Kava Kava
  Kola Nut
  Lungwort
  Maca

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Buy Herbs Online - Medicinal Herbs :: M - Z

  Mistletoe
  Nettle Root
  Oak, White
  Oregon grape
  Passion Flower
  Pine, White
  Pokeweed

  Queen of the Meadow
  Rhubarb, Chinese
  Saw Palmetto
  Shepherd's Purse
  Skullcap, Blue
  St. John's Wort
  Tansy
  Tea Tree Oil

  Valerian
  Wormwood
  Yarrow
  Yellow dock
  Yohimbe
  Zingiber (Ginger)

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Making Herbal Tinctures and Syrups

"An herbal tincture is an alcoholic extract of an herb.": To make your own, place 1 to 4 ounces of fresh (or dried) herb into a 16 ounce canning jar. Add enough vodka to the herb to fill the jar completely. Cover the jar with a cloth or loose fitting lid and allow the mixture to stand in a cool dark place for 10 - 12 days. Do not use a tight lid as some less experienced herbalists will try to tell you. Herbs will release gases, especially when fresh. The mixture needs to be able to vent or the build up of gas can break the container. Strain the liquid through a paper coffee filter and discard the spent herb. The recovered liquid should be bottled in a dark glass container and labeled for use. Tinctures made in this manner have a shelf life of up to 20 years, when properly stored.

"How to make an herbal syrup.": I'll make this easy. All herbal syrups, that I make, are a blend of 1 part tincture (the herb of your choice) and 2 parts corn syrup. I do not use honey. The dose is now three times the tincture dose. For example, a teaspoon of Horehound tincture is dosed at a tablespoon of the syrup. Syrups are simply a way to make a bad tasting herb easier to take orally.




Making an Herbal Oil Infusion

An oil infusion is a method of extracting and preserving the essential oils of herbs in a non-concentrated form. There is a variation on steam distillation where I place 8 ounces of any fresh herb into a 2 quart covered Pyrex simmer pot of water under a 1 inch layer of vegetable oil. I heat the water to a very low boil in order to vaporize the essential oils of the herbs as they "cook" and catch the vaporized oils in the oil layer above the water. After the herb changes color and texture (the pot is transparent) I remove the pot from the heat source, never lifting the lid, and allow it to cool to near room temperature. A Separatory Funnel would be handy at this point. I can then skim the oil from the surface of the water to filter, thru a paper coffee filter, and bottle. The shelf life of these oils is less than 1 year. Essential oils vaporize at relatively low temperatures and can be destroyed by the popular "hot oil method" of heating the oil directly. Cold oil methods can breed bacteria such as botulism.




The Whitehouse Cookbook
Mrs. F.L. Gillette - 1887

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These pills can be manufactured at home and are truly reliable, having been sold and used for more than fifty years in Europe. The ingredients may be procured at almost any druggist's. The articles should be all in the powder. Saffron one grain, rue one grain, aloes two grains, savin one grain, cayenne pepper one grain. Mix all into a very thick mass by adding sufficient syrup. Rub some fine starch on the surface of a platter or large dinner-plate, then with your forefinger and thumb nip off a small piece of the mass the size of a pill and roll it in pill form, first dipping your fingers in the starch. Place them as fast as made on the platter, set where they will dry slowly. Put them into a dry bottle or paper box. Dose, one every night and morning as long as occasion requires.



Making Herbal Teas and Decoctions

"A medicinal herbal tea is a hot water extract of an herb.": Medicinal herbal teas are often referred to as herbal infusions; They are usually made much stronger than common beverage teas. To make your own, place enough fresh or dried herb in a tea cup (or, tea brewing pot) to fill it 1/4 full. Add enough boiling water to the herb to fill the cup (or, tea brewing pot) completely. Cover the cup (or, tea brewing pot) and allow the herb to steep in the hot water for about 5 to 7 minutes before drinking. When using a tea brewing pot you can strain the tea by pouring it thru a tea strainer held above the cup, or you can use a large tea ball to hold the herb while in the pot, if desired. Also, a small tea ball can be used to hold the herb while brewing in a cup.

"Decoction :: What it is and how to make it.": When making a strong hot water extract from seeds, roots or stems it is called a decoction. A good example is Dandelion root. First, we slice and crush 1 ounce of Dandelion root and boil it for about 10 minutes in 16 ounces of water. Strain this into a container and add enough fresh water to bring the total quantity to 16 ounces. The decoction is now ready to drink, or for whatever it's intended use may be.





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... "Herbalism is a traditional medicinal or folk medicine practice based on the use of plants and plant extracts. Herbalism is also known as botanical medicine, medical herbalism, herbal medicine, herbology, herblore, and phytotherapy. The scope of herbal medicine is sometimes extended to include fungal and bee products, as well as minerals, shells and certain animal parts. Pharmacognosy is the study of medicines derived from natural sources.".

   

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"Qui potest mederi simplicibus frustra quaerit composita."
("If simple herbs suffice to cure, 'Tis vain to compound drugs endure.")


No English work on herbs and plants is met with prior to the sixteenth century. In 1552 all books on astronomy and geography were ordered to be destroyed, because supposed to be infected with magic. And it is more than probable that any publications extant at that time on the virtues of herbs (then associated by many persons with witchcraft), underwent the same fate. In like manner King Hezekiah long ago "fearing lest the Herbals of Solomon should come into profane hands, caused them to be burned," as we learn from that "loyal and godly herbalist," Robert Turner.

During the reigns of Edward the Sixth and Mary, Dr. William Bulleyn ranked high as a physician and botanist. He wrote the first Boke of Simples, which remains among the most interesting literary productions of that era as a record of his acuteness and learning. It advocates the exclusive employment of our native herbal medicines. Again, Nicholas Culpeper, "student in physick," whose name is still a household word with many a plain thinking English person, published in 1652, for the benefit of the Commonwealth, his "Compleat Method whereby a man may cure himself being sick, for threepence charge, with such things only as grow in England, they being most fit for English bodies." Likewise in 1696 the Honourable Richard Boyle, F.R.S., published "A Collection of Choice, Safe, and Simple English Remedies, easily prepared, very useful in families, and fitted for the service of country people."

Once more, the noted John Wesley gave to the world in 1769 an admirable little treatise on Primitive Physic, or an Easy and Natural Method for Curing most Diseases; the medicines on which he chiefly relied being our native plants. For asthma, he advised the sufferer to "live a fortnight on boiled Carrots only"; for "baldness, to wash the head with a decoction of Boxwood"; for "blood-spitting to drink the juice of Nettles"; for "an open cancer, to take freely of Clivers, or Goosegrass, whilst covering the sore with the bruised leaves of this herb"; and for an ague, to swallow at stated times "six middling pills of Cobweb."

In Wesley's day tradition only, with shrewd guesses and close observation, led him to prescribe these remedies. But now we have learnt by patient chemical research that the Wild Carrot possesses a particular volatile oil, which promotes copious expectoration for the relief of asthmatic cough; that the Nettle is endowed in its stinging hairs with "formic acid," which avails to arrest bleeding; that Boxwood yields "buxine," a specific stimulant to those nerves of supply which command the hair bulbs; that Goosegrass or Clivers is of astringent benefit in cancer, because of its "tannic," "citric," and "rubichloric acids"; and that the Spider's Web is of real curative value in ague, because it affords an albuminous principle "allied to and isomeric with quinine."

Long before this middle era in medicine, during quite primitive British times, the name and office of "Leeches" were familiar to the people as the first doctors of physic; and their parabilia or "accessibles" were worts from the field and the garden; so that when the Saxons obtained possession of Britain, they found it already cultivated and improved by what the Romans knew of agriculture and of vegetable productions. Hence it had happened that Rue, Hyssop, Fennel, Mustard, Elecampane, Southernwood, Celandine, Radish, Cummin, Onion, Lupin, Chervil, Fleur de Luce, Flax (probably), Rosemary, Savory, Lovage, Parsley, Coriander, Alexanders, or Olusatrum, the black pot herb, Savin, and other useful herbs, were already of common growth for kitchen uses, or for medicinal purposes.



HERBAL SIMPLES APPROVED FOR MODERN USES OF CURE
Second Edition
W. T. FERNIE, M.D. 1897